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CORE SUBJECTSLeadership and Conflict Resolution Leadership and Conflict Resolution is a field of study that involves organisational governance, and how organisational processes are structured in order to prevent and/or resolve disputes in the workplace. There are a large number of leadership styles and conceptions, each of which may have different consequences for the way conflicts are handled within the organisational space. This course analyses democratic leadership, authoritarian leadership, transformational leadership, etc. to make sense of the question what is the most efficient, effective and expeditious way to minimise employee-employee and/or employee-customer relational problems. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
Finance for Management Decision Making This module emphasises the importance of applying theories and models of finance to managerial decision-making processes. Business planning, strategic/competitive positioning, enlarging or contracting business operations, (re-)structuring teams, departments, divisions within an organisation, building new alliances/partnerships are all managerial decisions that have a basis on sound, multidimensional financial analysis. Thus, the conceptual structure of the module places a premium on embedding finance into all aspects of the managerial modus operandi. Concepts under review include optimal financial tradeoffs, leveraging, utilising working capital, weighted average cost of capital, internal rate of return, debt financing constructs specifically applied to management problems and puzzles in making choices under uncertainty and complexity. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
Advanced Management through NLP This module involves the concept of soft skills and its emerging and widespread prominence within the business world as a response to the challenges associated with getting the best out of the human dimension of operations. In a world where increasing the human capital is the most important wealth accumulation resource for businesses, it is especially crucial to enhance employee/partner productivity, efficiency and effectiveness through the use of soft skills. Recognising the central importance of this dynamic the workplace, the module provides sophisticated know-how to managers with regards to leadership, emotional intelligence, cross-cultural communication, motivation, teamwork psychology and influence. Instead of the vertical chain of command, horizontal management and functioning of organisations have reached the forefront of new management thinking, and this module provides the principal applications of this idea to various managerial contexts. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
Strategic Thinking Development This module teaches students how to manage strategic direction and planning in order to maximise revenue on all levels within the organisation. This involves issues such as what drives strategy, how strategy shapes business decisions, when strategic change is required and to whom the evaluation of strategic perspectives and options pertain in the management sphere. Students will also require a thorough knowledge of the practical analysis of various business proposals in order to generate a comprehensive and feasible business strategy that will facilitate expansion and development of the organisation as a whole. This requires skills related to critical reasoning, strategic logic development and advanced strategy differentiation and clarification, the main concepts upon which the module is built. By embedding strategic thinking skills within management idea generation processes and thereby synthesising strategic development throughout organisational governance, choice and action, the module allows the student to excel in the use of strategy as the main competitive advantage in business operations. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
This module will teach students how to develop an understanding of the organisation’s customers so that reaching target populations can be accomplished in a mutually beneficial manner. The multi-disciplinary nature of marketing involves taking into account insights not simply from business concepts and practices but also from economics, sociology, psychology and history, and as such, the course will provide an overarching conceptual toolkit for instantiation of successful marketing campaigns in differential contexts. The students will be able to formulate marketing models and schemes which can be translated into viable strategies for sustainable, long-term impact on the profitability of the business. Firms will create satisfied customers by integrating all business functions of the organisation into their Strategic Marketing plan and therefore generate satisfied customers which will result in a competitive advantage. An essential part of this module involves the knowledge of focusing marketing decisions in regards of how to best approach various market and strategic opportunities where students will learn how to integrate accounting and quantitative data in order to finalise the best possible marketing strategy for the organisation. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
Operations Management provides students with both a theoretical and a practical understanding of how operations can be managed strategically in the light of external and internal conditions and requirements. Significant aspects of operations management literature as supply chain management, enterprise resource planning, just-in-time delivery, lean manufacturing and management and total quality management will be under extensive review throughout the progression of the course. Operational strategy and corporate strategy will be synthesised to provide students with a complete range of the strategic requirements firms have in order to succeed in the highly competitive marketplace. The principal objectives of the course are the following:
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